It must be real if it's on jobs.ac.uk...! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ976/p...

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

New blog post! Why experiments are the gold standard for answering causal questions (pedermisager.org/blog/why-exp...). Many text books insist on experimental evidence to draw causal inferences bvut don't fully explain exactly what gives experiments their special powers.

Online dating lets us meet a more diverse range of potential partners, but we still tend to be drawn to people like ourselves. My latest @psychologytoday.com post explores why: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/digi...

A Registered Report of 7,978 people in 20 countries by @cmolho.bsky.social et al finds that decision-makers willfully ignore inconvenient information. Information about the negative consequences drives prosociality, especially among guilt-prone individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you study cooperation and how it varies across societies, including those that are under-represented? Are you interested in how AI is fundamentally reshaping human cooperation? If so, don’t miss our special issue on Current Directions in Social Dilemmas Research

📣 We are excited (or should we say disgusted?) to announce the conference 'Disgust across borders' at IAST! @iast.fr 🗓️ Join us on Dec 4 & 5 for two days full of disgust research across species and disciplines. Registration and abstract submission are open (until Aug 31): forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

New paper authored by a PhD student I’ve been supervising. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@juliastern.bsky.social has always been a star to me. I’m lucky to have her as both an amazing collaborator and friend.

🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨 The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing! And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

INFORMATION FOR EHBEA MEMBERS We’re collecting feedback on the Newcastle 2025 meeting (@ehbea2025.bsky.social). Check your email (and spam folder!) for the survey link, and don’t forget to fill it out 🙏 Didn’t get it? Reach out to Jeanne Bovet 😊 🔗 www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our...

The Modern R Stack for Production AI: doi.org/10.59350/z9f... Python isn't the only game in town anymore: R can interact with local and cloud LLM APIs, inspect and modify your local R environment and files, implement RAG, computer vision, NLP, evals, & much more #Rstats

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

Join me at the University of Witten/Herdecke for research on meta scientific topics, replication work or other fun things :-) as well as teaching some IMO wonderful students short.sg/j/56902143

Big Five personality differences by Zodiac sign (N = 324,929). Eta sq are all less than .0008, so less than 0.1% of the variance in personality is explained by Zodiac sign.

Coding Club: Creating an R Package by Lisa DeBruine #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/package%20development.html#coding-club-creating-an-r-package

In recognition of #MenstrualHealthAwarenessDay, we are pleased to highlight periodically.bsky.social, who address the stigma surrounding menstruation in science through open dialogue, examining the impact of menstrual health on students and researchers:

Happening in two days! Register here ⬇️

Please share! 💛 Looking for young people aged 16–24 with lived experience of self-harm. See poster for details on the co-design project. ✨ Interested or want to learn more? Get in touch: [email protected]

The new edition of 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour', co-authored with @kevinlala.bsky.social , is available! Get 30% off (promotion code ASPROMP8): global.oup.com/academic/pro... Ebook is available on Kindle. Thank you to Prof. Clark Barrett for the endorsement! 🧪

Our map of cold spots in provision of humanities and social sciences courses and student numbers across the UK has been updated with the data for the 2023/24 academic year. Explore for yourself here: buff.ly/2x7yE5K

We started a company to provide enterprise-level support for open-source statistical software @jaspstats.bsky.social . Our website with the mission and offers just went online! Is your business paying large licensing fees for statistical software? Are you looking for a change? Check it out!

New paper by a PhD student that I am supervising. We did not find an imprinting-like effect causes parental age at birth to predict preferences for facial cues of age. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Applications for @bpsofficial.bsky.social study visit funding open www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Since we are still talking about interactions, I worked with some ecologists a couple of years ago on measurement scale, interactions and interpretation issues. I think some problems arise from failure to distinguish prediction from inference, a chronic problem in ecology imo doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Brazil stats agency releases new map with Global South at the top #politics #brazil valorinternational.globo.com/politics/new...

Fillingim et al. show that biological and psychosocial factors jointly predict chronic pain associated conditions

1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟 Does moral licensing (doing a good thing, then a less good thing) really exist?? ➡️ Many failed replications. Why? ➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test 🧵👇 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... #SocialPsychology #Bayesian #Theory

How do the rights of LGBT+ people vary across the world? 🧵 The first map shows the nearly 40 countries that allow same-sex partners to marry, affirming their right to love and form a family. However, the majority of countries don’t recognize same-sex marriage, or outright ban it.

Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits, & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

As someone from Brazil and a Greggs fan, that’s a gem!

I speak to a lot of undergraduate students who are interested in postgraduate study but don’t know where to start. This reminds me of myself & so I wanted to write “something” that would give people an idea of things to ask. Hope it helps: philmcaleer.github.io/thinkingmast... #EduSky #HigherEd

Currently seeking #participants to take part in #research on online dating and wellbeing. If you currently use any online dating platform and want to help with our research, please scan the QR code below or click this link: research.sc/participant/...

I’m listening to my first audiobook, and it’s ‘The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World’ by @nicholaraihani.bsky.social. Really enjoying it, especially because she’s the narrator and it sounds like she’s talking directly to the listener.

Folks, universities here are have decided to cut international psychology programs, which will be devastating to psychological science in the Netherlands. Please consider signing this open letter on behalf of my colleagues and me; anybody can sign. openletter.earth/against-lang...

Did you not meet your tax deductible charitable #donation goal for 2024? Want to send #aid to #Africa? Donate to @omovalleyresearchproject.org. Your money will support an #Indigenous #student in need. These students often use their education to help people from their communities.

The upcoming version of @jaspstats.bsky.social is gonna feature an even better version of the meta-analysis module. For example, the forest plot will allow aggregating effect size estimate information with just a couple click!

Heading back to Glasgow after attending my first @ehbea.bsky.social conference. Such a wonderful program, and I had the chance to meet old friends and new people there. #ehbea2025

We’re thrilled to announce EHBEA2026 will be in the beautiful and historic city of Leiden!

Today is the day!! #EHBEA2025 is now here!! 😁🎉 Come find us at registration, which opens at 2pm! Then: - Pre-conference panel on big team science, 2-3pm - Conference opening @330pm - Plenary by Russell Hill @4pm - Reception @5pm Can't wait to see you all today! @ehbea.bsky.social

🎉 It's almost time— #EHBEA2025 kicks off this Monday!! We're very excited to welcome you to Newcastle! ✨ Check your inboxes—an important email just went out with everything you need to know. 📩 Here’s a quick thread with the essentials [1/10] 🧵👇

⭐ With registration for #EHBEA2025 closing in *just 4 days* 😱😱😱, let's recap on what we have planned ! 🎉 First up: Amazing Plenaries! 🧑🏻‍🏫 Kicking us off is Prof Russell Hill! ➡️ How STRANGE are your wild primates? Observer impacts on observational data collection 👀🙈 [1/10] @ehbea.bsky.social

Deadline in 5 days! Work with @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social and myself for a 3-year postdoc based in Edinburgh. Cultural evolution + social media data to study how archaeological content fuels (or not) contemporary hostility online.

I'm happy to announce a Ph.D. position open working with Letty Koopman & me at the SNA cluster in Groningen! Application deadline is March 31st. The project will develop multiplex network models that estimate & adjust for measure biases related to friendship. Please share! www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Our meta-analysis on changes in oral contraceptive use and partnered women's sexual satisfaction is now published in Hormones and Behavior. w/ @juliastern.bsky.social, @fbartos.bsky.social, Yasaman Rafiee, @tvpollet.bsky.social, and Ben Jones. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke.

My @socialai.bsky.social PhD student is looking for folks who would like to participate in a study about trusting GenAI as a source of emotional support. Registration link: forms.office.com/e/tQ39sRWiHb

🚨 POSTDOC WANTED 🚨 Join the Behavioral Economics of Crime & Conflict Group at MPICSL in Freiburg! We're seeking a behavioral scientist with PhD in economics, psychology, or related. Experience with experiments is key. Full time, 2 years, no teaching. Apply now! tinyurl.com/FGR251 #EconSky

In this SRMA, @janpfa.bsky.social and @sachaltay.bsky.social find that people rate true news as more accurate than false news and are better at rating false news as false than at rating true news as true. www.nature.com/articles/s41...